Benjamin Bratt plays the lead in Leon Ichaso's 'Pinero.'
BERLIN -- John Malkovich's directing debut, "The Dancer Upstairs" with Javier Bardem, has been pulled at the last minute from the Berlin Fest's Panorama sidebar for independent and arthouse films.
The pic, from Madrid's Lolafilms, about a Peruvian police officer's search for a Marxist rebel leader, was withdrawn after the pic was picked up by Fox Seachlight.
Among the newly confirmed titles to be screened at the Panorama are Feng Xiaogang's Chinese pic "Big Shot's Funeral" starring Donald Sutherland and Paul Mazursky, and Argentinean-Spanish production "Every Stewardess Goes to Heaven" by Daniel Burman.
In all, 38 features, 18 docs and 23 short films from around the globe will be screened at the Panorama.
These include Moises Kaufman's "The Laramie Project," which opened Sundance; "Pinero" from helmer Leon Ichaso, starring Benjamin Bratt; "Bungalow" from German helmer Ulrich Koehler; and U.K. documentary "Lost in La Mancha" by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe.
PANORAMA 2002"All About Lily Chou-Chou," Shunji Iwai (Japan)
"America so Beautiful," Babak Shokrian (U.S.)
"Bed of Procust," Viorica Mesina, Sergiu Prodan (Moldavia)
"Big Shot's Funeral," Feng Xiaogang (China)
"Boomerang," Dragan Marinkovic (Canada/Yugoslavia)
"Bungalow," Ulrich Koehler (Germany)
"Chaos," Coline Serreau (France)
"The City of No Limits," Antonio Hernandez (Spain)
"Dandy," Francois Armanet (France)
"Dark Water," Hideo Nakata (Japan)
"Dazzling," Xin Lee (China)
"Dragonflies," Marius Holst (Norway)
"Every Stewardess Goes to Heaven," Daniel Burman (Argentina/Spain)
"Food of Love," Ventura Pons (Germany/Spain)
"Francisca," Eva Lopez-Sanchez (Mexico/Germany/Spain)
"Go," Isao Yukisada (Japan)
"Good Hands," Peeter Simm (Estonia/Latvia)
"Guardian of the Frontier," Maja Weiss (Slovenia/Germany)
"Ibiza Dream," Igor Fioravanti (Spain)
"July Rhapsody," Ann Hui (Hong Kong)
"Just a Kiss," Fisher Stevens (U.S.)
"The Laramie Project," Moises Kaufman (U.S.)
"Light Drops," Fernando Vendrell (Portugal)
"My Brother, Silk Road," Marat Sarulu (Kasachstan/Kirgisistan)
"On_Line," Jed Weintrob (U.S.)
"A Painful Pair," Hisashi Saito (Japan)
"Paradox Lake," Przemyslaw Reut (U.S./Germany)
"Pinero," Leon Ichaso (U.S.)
"Reading My Lips," Jacques Audiard (France)
"Suddenly Naked," Anne Wheeler (Canada)
"Swing," Tony Gatlif (France)
"The Tale of Fedot, the Shooter," Sergei Ovcarov (Russia)
"Tar Angel," Denis Chouinard (Canada)
"The Three Marias," Aluizio Abranches (Brazil)
"The Third Eye," Christophe Fraipont (Belgium/`France/Luxembourg)
"The Trespasser," Beto Brant (Brazil)
"Walking on Water," Tony Ayres (Australia)
"Winter," Nina di Majo (Italy)
Documentary Films"All About My Father," Even Benestad (Norway/Denmark)
"Alle Gefuhle glauben an einen glucklichen Ausgang -- Uber Alexander Kluge," Angelika Wittlich (Germany)
"Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary," Andre Heller, Othmar Schmiderer (Austria)
"The Burning Wall," Hava Kohav Beller (U.S.)
"The Children of Russia," Jaime Camino (Spain)
"The Cockettes," Bill Weber, David Weissman (U.S.)
"Friends in High Places," Lindsey Merrison (Germany/Switzerland)
"God's Children," Hiroshi Shinomiya (Japan)
"Lilith on Top," Lynne Stopkewich (Canada)
"Lost in La Mancha," Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe (U.K.)
"Marlene Dietrich -- Her Own Song," David Riva (Germany/USA)
"Moro no Brasil," Mika Kaurismaekin (Germany/Finland/France/Brazil)
"Queens Don't Cry," Rosa von Praunheim (Germany)
"Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House," Deborah Dickson (U.S.)
"Texas," Circumstance (U.S.)
"Venus Boyz," Gabriel Baur (Germany/Switzerland/USA)
"War and Peace," Anand Patwardhan (India)
"Warrior of Light," Monika Treut (Germany)
Contact Ed Meza at
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